Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage was a program fit for a king: Destinn singing arias from Aïda, and Melba arias from Romeo and Juliet; Tetrazzini and John McCormack in a duet from The Barber of Seville. Then came the evening's climax: the much-bruited new Russian ballet, whose 21-year-old star, Vaslav Nijinsky, had all Europe abuzz with the grace of his dancing and the power of his leaps. That night, London's applause was added to the Continent...
...Berlioz: Romeo & Juliet Excerpts (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Berlioz' Romeo & Juliet is the kind of music that in lesser hands can sound merely bombastic; Toscanini gives it the care and excitement it deserves. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent...
...Sweet Song. In Washington, D.C., when cops arrested George Munson while he was thrashing Lillian May Barrett, he explained: "I wanted to find out if we were still engaged." In Detroit, Romeo St. Amour was taken to jail after shellacking wife Juliet...
...Flag fluttering from Roviano's tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election singlehanded when she shouted in a village square speech: "The landowners call us barbarians...